On Monday 19 September 2011, the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families held a day of general discussion in Geneva focusing on “the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers in an Irregular Situation and Members of their Families.”

The full day of discussion took place during the fifteenth session of the Committee at the United Nations Office in Geneva (Palais Wilson).

The discussion focused on four outcomes:

1. Assisting the Committee in developing concrete recommendations in relation to the protection of the rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families, when examining reports of States parties to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (ICRMW);
2. Clarifying the scope of the ICRMW in relation to the rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation;
3. Assisting the Committee in adopting a General Comment on migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families;
4. Promoting greater consideration of the particular situation and rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families.

General documentation

• Programme
• Background note

Oral presentations

• Broken Laws report
• Cáritas Española
• Centro Pueblo Unidos
• Claudia Alejandra Villaseñor Goyzueta
• Foyer Belgium
• Global Workers Justice Alliance and American University Washington College of Law
• ICED OUT
• International Detention Coalition (IDC)
• Migrant Forum in Asia
• MMC (Thailand) | 1 | 2 | 3
• National Employment Law Project (NELP) - 1 | 2
• NGO Committee on Migration
• RESPECT Network
• Stichting LOS

The views expressed in the submissions online are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Committee.